Teachers and Students of Imam Abu Dawood Sijistani.
Teachers of Imam Abu Dawood:
Imam Shamsuddin al-Dhahabi says that he studied under many great ‘ulama. Ibn Hajr puts the number at 300. Among his more famous teachers are:
- Musaddad ibn Musarhad
- Yahya ibn Ma’een
- Qutayba ibn Sa’eed
- ‘Uthman ibn Abi Shayba
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Qa’naby
- Abu’l Waleed Tayalisi.
- Muhammad ibn Kathir ‘Abdi
- Muslim ibn Ibrahim
- Abu Ja’far Nufaily.
He also benefited from Abu ‘Amr Dharir and ‘Asim ibn ‘Ali who were from the senior scholars of that time. He studied under many of Imam Bukhari’s shuyukh. Ibn Hajr has counted him alongwith Bukhari in the 11th generation of traditionists (muhaddithin).
Students:
Among his more noted students are:
- Lu’lu’i.
- Ibn ‘Arabi
- Ibn Daastah
- Abu Hasan Ansari
- Abu Teeb Ashnani
- Abu ‘Amr Basri
- Abu ‘Isa Ramli (to whom he gave his handwritten copy of Kitab al-Sunan)
- Abu Usama Ruwas (narrator of 8 Sunan books)
- Abu ‘Abdullah (narrator of Kitab al-Radd ‘ala Ahl al-Qadr)
- Abu Bakr Najjar (narrator of Nasikh wa’l Mansukh)
- Abu ‘Ubayd Aajurri (narrator of Kitab al-Masa’il)
- Isma’il Saffaar (narrator of Musnad Malik)
- Abu Bakr ‘Abdullah (son of Imam Tirmidhi)
- Imam Nasa’i,
- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Adapted from “The Biography of Imam Abu Dawud Sijistani”, edited by Mufti A.H. Elias.